Witness to the Age of Revolution

Jos Carlos de la Puente, Early American Literature a formidable teaching tool

Mark Rice, The Americas An engaging text that will be of particular value to teachers who want to convey the human aspect of a tumultuous era as well as how it has been interpreted through history....Walker and Clarke should be applauded for their research and attention to detail....Perhaps the most important value of this genre is that it brings into stark relief the human experiences and suffering of the era of Atlantic Revolution in ways that traditional historical narratives simply cannot convey It is a very good example of the pedagogical value of graphic history. The book should also serve as a call to revisit the historical and pedagogical value of biography. Witness to the Age of Revolution shows how they can not only weave multiple historical themes into one narrative but also put a very human face on these events.

Jos Carole de la Puente, Early American Literature A formidable teaching tool....The graphics are well crafted and their rich, comic-like aesthetics, truly powerful. Maps, family trees, primary documents, and other visual resources effectively condense large amounts of information and vividly convey Juan Bautista's plea, making the story easy to follow, even for students with little to no knowledge of the subject....Juan Bautista's experiences...put a human face to...epochal transformations....As he reminisced about his forty-year ordeal...[He] did not merely recount the recent colonial past, he also helped to resignify it, rendering it useful to the nascent Latin American nations struggling to gain (and legitimize) their independence from Spain.

Fernando Aguirre Perez, La Vaca Multicolor This book manages to rescue one of the most elusive figures in Peruvian history and is a persuasive invitation to take his sources as a starting point to relocate his historical legacy in the debates about the past, present and future of the Peruvian republican project in its bicentennial.... The appearance of Witness to the Age of Revolution contributes to revitalizing the subgenre of graphic adaptations of central documents of Peruvian historiography, which in Peru has very little precedent.

Kirkus Part action comic, part historical biography: an attempt to correct the record and give a pivotal figure the prominence he deserves... [Witness to the Age of Revolution is] an educational hybrid, with vivid illustrations backed by scholarly context.

Vincent Brown, author of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Some stories, like the incredible odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, have to be seen to be believed. From his youth in the heart of the Incan Andes, where his half-brother led the massive indigenous struggle that nearly dislodged the Spanish Empire, to his decades-long exile in Spain and Morocco, where he befriended veterans of late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century revolutions and wars of independence, a...

Charles F. Walker is Professor of History and the Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, named one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times, among other works on Latin American history. Liz Clarke is a professional illustrator based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Preface Part I: The Graphic History Part II: Context Part III: The Primary Sources a. Diary b. Commander Cordoba report, 1784 c. Cadiz petition, 1814 d. Indiferente petition, 1814 e. Duran Martel letter, 1814 f. Legajo 1023, 1821 g. Diario Constitucional, Barcelona, 1821 h. Algeciras--amnesty rejected, 1822 i. Tupac Amaru to Rivadavia, 1822 j. Letter to Simon Bolivar, 1825 k. Angelis, "imposter," 1836 l. Clements Markham, 1862 Further Reading and Sources Acknowledgments Index